August 28, 2009

  • We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

    “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
    2 Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.
    3 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
    4 Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
    5 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
    6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

    –Revelation 3:1-6



    The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.
    2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.
    3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know.
    4 Then he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
    5 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
    6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

    7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
    8 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.
    9 Then he said to me, Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
    10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

    11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
    12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.
    13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.
    14 And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.

    –Ezekiel 37:1-14

    O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

    You are a living God. You are the God of the living and not of the dead. But yet we confess that we are all but dead. The dry bones are very dry. There is very little breath left. We have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. We confess that we have pushed Your Spirit out of Your Church because we have relied on our own power. We confess we have quenched Your Spirit. We confess we have grieved Your Spirit. We confess we have relied on ourselves rather than You. We confess we have tried to walk in the works You have ordained by us in our own power. We confess we have gone astray and not walked with You.

    Living God, we are desperate. You have shown us we are all but dead. We have no hope apart from You because we have no life apart from You.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    Forgive us, O God, for Jesus' sake. Forgive us, O God, for we are Your people You have purchased with Your Son's precious blood. We have brought reproach to Your Holy Name.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    Living God, in Your mercy You have shown us we are all but dead. We were once dead in our sins and transgressions and Your mercy and grace raised us to new life in You. We acknowledge that we have neither life nor breath apart from You. We are dying today. Grant us mercy and grace once more and breathe life into these dead bones.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    The world is not being turned upside down because we are about to die. How can we bring life to a dead world if we are all but dead? Forgive us, O God. You are the God who brings life to the dead.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    We have been worldly. We have fashioned our lives, our congregations and our denominations after the ways of the world rather than the ways of Your Kingdom. Forgive us, O God.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    We confess we have not opened ourselves up to the work of Your Spirit. Forgive us, O God. Open up our graves and raise us up from our graves, O God of the resurrection.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    We confess that we have a form of godliness but have denied Your power. We have taught Christianity as a moral code rather than a life. Forgive us, O God. You are the God of the living and not of the dead.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    We confess we have continued to be full of ourselves. We have not asked You to empty us and to fill us with Your Spirit. Forgive us, O God. Fill us up with all Your fullness.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    We confess we have had no fire because we have neglected to ask You to baptize us with fire. We have tried to manufacture and then offer to You and to the world strange fire. How can we turn a dark and cold world upside down apart from Your light and fire?

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    We are all but dead. We have no real life apart from Your Spirit. Come and dwell in us afresh and anew morning by morning. We have no hope apart from You, living God, because there is life in no other but You.

    We are Your people. Do not forsake us.
    Be merciful to us, O living God. Send Your Spirit to us.
    We confess we are dead. Breathe Your life into us.

    As His Spirit leads you,
    please add your prayers here for God to breathe life into you and into His Church.

Comments (2)

  • Lord, it is sad that a church could be seen as dead as a nail in your sight! I Thank you for noticing the few who were living for you in that dead church. Lord, we fear many of our local churches are on spiritual respirators and need a new filling of the Holy Spirit to wake them up. Have mercy on me too as I am sometimes way to cool towards You.  Send Your revival fires to our churches in America. amen

  • oh Lord!  " We have tried to manufacture and then offer to You and to the world strange fire"

    Forgive us Lord for not waiting on you to send fire from heaven, for attempting to "prove" your power to the world by our own means.  We have no such power to do Your mighty works!  How awful, how blasphemous, how ugly we are to counterfeit the work of your Holy Spirit and offer that mess to the world.

    Forgive us Lord for not waiting on you.  We truly know how dead we are.  We need Your life, Your power, Your Spirit.  Please come, Holy Spirit!

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